Eternal Night

Chapter 883 Reader Experience Card
"...The transcendent path of the Zanpakuto belongs to the derivative transcendent of the Spirit Particle Civilization."

Wu Pifu tried hard to recall the information that the omniscient Sphinx had given him: "The Spirit Particle Civilization is a civilization that has existed for nearly a hundred epochs. Its unique transcendence is the Spirit Particle Transcendent Path. They can cultivate their souls to achieve four characteristics: change of form, change of nature, soul manifestation, and soul sublimation. The transcendence path of the Zanpakuto that I want is a derivative of the soul manifestation aspect."

At this moment, Amadeus said from the side, "From what you've said, this Spirit Particle Civilization seems very powerful, so why does it seem so inconspicuous in the entire Dream World?"

Although the Dream World system is cruel, since there are remnants of civilization and intelligent life, there are naturally historical records and opinions on whether they are famous or not. For example, the Heavenly Court has dominated the entire Dream World for countless epochs, and even the most ignorant civilizations know of its existence. Another example is the True Martial Civilization, which, although it has declined and weakened, still has a resounding reputation in the Dream World.

Swallows leave their shadows as they fly by, and people leave their names as they pass through. In the dream world, a powerful civilization can be celebrated for hundreds of epochs.

However, this Spirit Particle Civilization was so unfamiliar. The Gaia humans had no information about the Dream World, and there was no record of it in any of the various civilizations. Even the last individual of the containment civilization that had allied with Wu Pifu knew nothing about it.

Wu Pifu tried hard to recall the information he had been given: "Because this civilization perished very quickly, the last individual fell from above, and the derivative world it landed in was only the 0.6 Dream World. In other words, its civilization didn't even fall to the 0.6 level before it was completely gone. So it was probably too short-lived, so it didn't leave any reputation after it was gone. After all, people like us Gaia humans are a very rare case."

The fact that people like the Gaia humans became famous throughout the dream world while still in the Absolute Reality layer is due to a variety of reasons. First, the Gaia humans have a main brain that allows them to penetrate the dream world from the Absolute Reality layer. This is the core reason; without it, nothing else matters. Second, Wu Pifu was simply too extraordinary. Third, the dramatic changes in the dream world awakened the Heavenly Court and many other dream world civilizations, which is why they took notice of the Gaia humans.

Other civilizations in other eras were not so unlucky or defiant. They usually fell to the middle level of the dream world, that is, level 0.4 to 0.6, before they began to make contact with other civilizations and left their mark. Therefore, Wu Pifu's statement is valid. As long as this spiritual civilization falls fast enough and its fall level is high enough, then they can indeed be very powerful but remain unknown.

Amadeus was even more puzzled. He said, "No, buddy, are you serious? Can someone be powerful, fall at a high enough level, and remain unknown all at the same time?"

Before Wu Pifu could speak, Xu Shilan frowned and said, "No, they can appear at the same time... Let me ask you, when do you think the strongest era of Gaia humans was? By the way, there are a few premises, setting aside the existence of the super brain and the extraordinary paths after the opening of the dream world, just talking about the technological and military level of Gaia human civilization."

Amadeus paused for a moment, then asked after a moment of serious thought, "Was it during World War IV?"

"Do not."

Xu Shilan shook her head and said, "Actually, contrary to many people's expectations, it was during the short fifty years after the end of the three wars, when the Azure Organization finished its all-out effort to save the world and the entire human civilization entered a golden age, that was the strongest moment for the Gaia human civilization."

"How is this possible!?" Amadei and even Wu Pifu exclaimed in surprise.

Xu Shilan smiled wryly and said, "I'm not joking with you. I served as the head of the Xu family for a period of time, so I know a lot about some internal information. During the Fourth World War, the combined military power of the Human Unified Government and the Human Revolutionary Alliance was less than half of what the Azure Government was at its strongest. Back then, the Azure Government colonized the entire solar system and maintained a very large military force on planets and in the universe, and its weapons were very advanced. In the hundreds of years that followed, human technology hardly made any progress. At the same time, the singularity technology that the company possessed had actually been researched by the Azure Government for a long time, and its mastery of it was not much lower than that of the company. Moreover, all these forces were unified under a single regime. That was when the Gaia humans were at their strongest!"

Although Wu Pifu and Amadei found it hard to believe, upon closer reflection, it seemed to make sense. Wu Pifu, in particular, had truly returned to the era of the End Producers. At that time, the Azure Government was no longer at its peak, but its technological level was actually no worse than that of the Gaia humans after World War IV.

Huang Rong explained to the two of them from the side, "What Sister Xu means is that there is no necessary connection between being powerful or not and being able to destroy quickly. I have also read a lot of books and works by the Gaia humans, which describe many possibilities of human self-destruction. Brother Ant and Uncle Amadei should know these, right?"

Wu Pifu and Amadei naturally knew that the most famous thing was nuclear bondage and nuclear deterrence, which was actually a harbinger of self-destruction. Then the outbreak of World War III and World War IV was actually humanity's self-destruction. If things went wrong, humanity wouldn't even need to open the dream world; it would be directly destroyed on the absolute reality layer.

At this moment, the last individual of the contained civilization said from the side: "I think I know why this Spirit Particle Civilization was destroyed at the higher levels of the Dream World... It's because of their unique extraordinary path, Spirit Particle Transcendence. This is an extremely rare extraordinary path in the realm of the True Soul, but all extraordinary paths in the realm of the True Soul are too dangerous and very easy to cause self-backlash. Moreover, this backlash is not just for an individual, but is based on the backlash of the entire civilization race... Apart from the Heavenly Court, I don't know of any other civilizations with the extraordinary path of the True Soul that have survived."

This seems to be a general rule in the dream world: among the three realms of transcendence, physical transcendence is the most stable, although its power and strangeness are the least; mental transcendence is the next, with power and strangeness greater than physical transcendence; and soul transcendence is the least stable, but its power and strangeness are simply heaven-defying. At the same time, the three also consume different amounts of reality: physical transcendence consumes the least, mental transcendence is the next, and soul transcendence consumes an enormous amount of reality.

In short, there are advantages and disadvantages, but if one cannot withstand the backlash, then even the strongest superhuman is useless, and destruction will still occur, and the destruction will be silent.

"...The extraordinary path of the Zanpakuto I need is the soul manifestation derivative extraordinary path within the spiritual particle extraordinary path. From the information I have received, after the destruction of this world, the derivative of the spiritual particle extraordinary path split into four parts, and all four parts formed world debris that fell into this shattered domain. What we need to find is the world debris containing soul manifestation, so from now on we only need to select world debris."

Wu Pifu finally revealed this most important information. Although he hadn't had time to obtain the location coordinates of this world's remains from the Omniscient Sphinx before the Sphinx died of old age, he at least knew the general location of the extraordinary paths of the Zanpakuto in the Shattered Domain. At least he had distinguished the world fragments, so he only needed to focus on finding the world's remains.

Then there was another important piece of information that Wu Pifu obtained from the omniscient Sphinx.

"Fish?" Everyone was repeating the word inexplicably.

Wu Pifu nodded seriously and said, "That's right. The Buddhist secret treasure located in the Shattered Domain was established by the Buddha of Sandalwood Merit. In addition to the secrets about the source of pollution left by the First Buddha, there was also a fragment of a cultivation technique as a reward for the secret treasure. However, this secret treasure was swallowed by a fish!"

Everyone was completely bewildered...

No, fish?

What kind of fish?
A fish that can survive in the Shattered Realm? And it even swallowed a Buddhist treasure!?
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
Huang Rong asked cautiously, "Is it a unique Buddhist supernatural power, the Sumeru hidden in a mustard seed? This Buddhist secret is extremely small, hidden in a mustard seed, so it was swallowed by a fish?"

Wu Pifu shook his head.

Xu Shilan and Amadei exchanged a glance and said, "Could it be... the Primordial Fish? A Primordial Beast?"

Wu Pifu shook his head again.

The last remaining individual of the contained civilization chimed in, "Or perhaps a meme called 'Fish'? Bizarre? Or perhaps a high-level nightmare?"

Wu Pifu still shook his head.

Everyone was puzzled. Wu Pifu hesitated for a moment, which was completely out of character for him. He always spoke his mind directly, and such hesitation was very rare.

After thinking for a long time, Wu Pifu said, "It was a fish in a dream that swallowed the secret. All efforts to search for the secret must be made to find this fish. To find this fish, or to get close to this fish, one must enter the dream. But that dream... I don't know what it is. The all-knowing Sphinx didn't have time to tell me what it was either. That dream... it's terrifying."

Everyone gasped. Xu Shilan, Amadeus, and Huang Rong were shocked because Wu Pifu had said something terrifying. In their minds, Wu Pifu had never easily said anything terrifying about anything; at most, he would just say something was very powerful. For him to say something was terrifying was beyond their imagination.

The last individual of the contained civilization gasped in shock.

Unlike Xu Shilan and others' understanding of Wu Pifu, after learning that Wu Pifu outlived the contained object, the last individual of the contained civilization had already regarded Wu Pifu as mere livestock... The fact that such a mere livestock could utter the three terrifying words made the last individual of the contained civilization even suspect that the dream and fish Wu Pifu mentioned referred to the source of pollution!
“Then I suggest you stop investigating the Buddhist secrets,” the last individual of the contained civilization couldn’t help but say.

Everyone looked toward the void, though he wasn't there... The last individual of the contained civilization continued, "I don't want to lose you as an ally, unless the contents of this Buddhist treasure are extremely valuable to you."

Wu Pifu thought of the secret Buddhist technique, the Free and Ultimate Intent Technique. This technique was indeed very valuable to him, so he nodded seriously: "Yes, it is very valuable to me."

This question immediately silenced the last remaining individual of the contained civilization from continuing his persuasion. He hesitated for a long time before suddenly asking, "Speaking of which, you mentioned those narrators earlier, the monsters you spoke of... Do you have a good relationship with them?"

Wu Pifu immediately smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, although they are all monsters, they are all human. They even helped me before, and when I heard them earlier, they were all greeting me warmly."

The last individual of the contained civilization hesitated for a long time before finally saying resolutely, "Since that's the case, then I'll give you something. This is also a contained object, belonging to the category of extremely high-risk, but exceptionally useful contained objects. I can give you one page, only one page. You can try using this to break through what you call the dream and the fish."

Everyone became curious, and Wu Pifu asked directly, "What containment object?"

"...Reader Experience Card".

(End of this chapter)